The ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS at IJS consist of personal papers as
well as
archives of record companies and
jazz-related institutions and organizations
spanning from 1920 to the present. (listed alphabetically)

950 Artist contracts and agent’s commission records, 2183 Rolodex cards with artist information, agent and performance venues for numerous jazz and pop artists from the West Coast office; Corporation business license for Nevada

Open

ABC Booking Corporation Promotional Ephemera

2 cubic feet

Oversize posters and signs

Open

Ahola, Sylvester, Collection, ca. 1912 – 1970

3 cubic feet

Scrapbooks with photographs, Photographs; Holograph and other music manuscripts, published music including Aloha’s How To Play Trumpet or Cornet; audio material; Business and personal papers , artifact “Still Whalin’ at 82”; periodicals with articles re: Ahola

Benny Carter’s personal audio archive; discs, cassettes, reel-to-reel-tapes of performances, interviews, film and television scores, and many other unreleased recordings; digitized through a grant from the Mellon Foundation

13 boxes - Comprised of more than 1,000 song titles of printed sheet music that the singer either recorded, performed, or read during the course of her career. Jazz is the genre most documented, but significant amounts of popular music from the 1940's through the 1980's are also present

Lead Sheets, Professional Copies and Sheet Music; Gabler compositions, bulk of music by other composers; Several rare covers; Some music organized into transportation themes; Ephemera, Books many inscribed to Gabler

Comprehensive collection of reel-to-reel tapes of rare and unreleased performances compiled and donated by Goodman biographer/discographer D. Russell Connor and digitized through a grant from the Mellon Foundation

Personal and correspondence from jazz notables re: performances for Jazz Exchange or Jazzcraft Records; Candid and professional photographs of concerts

Open; No finding aid

Johnson, Albert “Budd”, Music Manuscripts

(.33) cubic foot

Holograph music manuscripts for Johnson’s band and two unrecorded arrangements for The Earl Hines Orchestra

Open

Johnson, Howard, Collection, ca. 1949 - 1989

3 cubic feet

Hiolograph, handwritten and published music manuscripts; Holograph work books from the Hartnett National Musical Studios; Diploma from Royston Conservatory of Music, 1953; Related ephemera; Audiocassette Recordings

Collection on the professional life of Jack Teagarden, includes assorted newspaper articles/clippings, and photographs from his radio and television appearances, professional sessions and from his private life. From archivist Mollie Kikutchi, avid follower of Jack Teagarden.

Photographs and slides including family images in 1900, Photo Albums; Scrapbooks, News Clippings, Music Manuscripts including arrangements for the vocalist with George Shearing’s quintet in early 1950s

Photographs, Scrapbooks, Research Papers, Journals of Performances attended by LK, and Business Records, Correspondence. Handbills, Publications and Related Material documenting the career of Victoria Spivey and other blues, jazz and folk artists

Portions organized by type; available only by appointment with Collections Archivist

83 boxes - materials collected by Ms. Lincoln herself over the course of her life including scores, photographs, collected writings, business and personal files. All of these evidence her personal and professional endeavors as well as her continuous evolution as an artist

Holograph and other hand-written music manuscripts for Macero bands, Miles Davis and Wallace Roney; Pony Poindexter compositions; Scott Joplin’s The Red Back Book, Film air checks for The Sound of Jazz and other film; Reel-to-reel and audiocassette tapes, Masters, LPs and CDs

Mahoney, Dan, Collection of Record Company Business Papers, ca. 1920s – 1955s, #45

15 cubic feet

Discographical information and business papers for Columbis Records (pre-1930s), Perfect, Vocalion, Oriole, Swing, Romeo, Okeh, American and Banner Record labels

Open

Helen Mandell Photographs and Research Papers, circa 1972-1987

Volume: 3.5 linear feet

General Content: Includes photographs of many jazz performers, one original painting of Lester Young, and several folders with notes from interviews with Benny Morton.

Access: Open for research only with permission of Helen Mandell.

Mann, Howie, Collection

20 cubic feet

Music manuscripts, Handwritten and published transcriptions, stock arrangements, Big Band Drum Instruction book; Periodicals (Esquire and other important ones); Reel-to-reel and cassette audiotapes, 45s, 78s and LPs

Closed

Manone, Joseph “Wingy” Collection

5 cubic feet

Music Manuscripts in Band Books, Newsclippings, Correspondence, Business Papers, Audio tapes and Film, Photographs, Film, Trunk

Handwritten scores and parts, professionally copied parts - includes a large number of Ralph Burns and Don Sebesky original arrangements, Chico O'Farrell and Mike Abene represented; Lead sheets and Acetates of Cy Coleman compositions